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D109758-3
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- 1957-10-19 (Creation)
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The Lerner Shops can be glimpsed through the space next to the S.H. Kress store across the street as the variety store underwent extensive remodeling in the fall of 1957. Mounds of rubble including pieces of wood, hoses, rubber, and shattered concrete are clearly visible. It was apparently time for the Kress store to update itself; it was built originally in 1925 as part of the nationwide chain of variety stores. The new Kress store would celebrate a grand reopening in August, 1958. Fourteen years later, in 1972, the store would end its presence in downtown Tacoma. The Children's Museum of Tacoma would remodel and occupy the building in the late 1990's. Photograph ordered by S.H. Kress & Co.
S.H. Kress & Co. (Tacoma); Variety stores--Tacoma--1950-1960; Building construction--Tacoma--1950-1960;